Dior reinvents Lewis Carroll’s Alice for the Brat era at Paris fashion week
Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian
January 2025
Here, Chiuri swapped the signature New Look for a lesser-known chapter of Dior history, when her job was held by a young Yves Saint Laurent, who presented a new trapeze silhouette consisting of babydoll dresses with a graphic A-line shape that all but ignored the waist. She fused this reference to late 1950s Dior with details borrowed from the gothically charged Alice depicted in Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist paintings. Her gravity-defying hair and the jellyfish-tangle of her skirts showed up on the runway. Chiuri said backstage that she liked ‘the idea of nonsense’. […]